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Gotta watch: When blind see, deaf hear
Today, Gotta Watch is looking back at some of our favorite firsts from over the years. These videos are inspired by a touching video of a deaf woman hearing her own voice for the first time.
Deaf woman hears her voice for first time – 29-year-old Sarah Churman was born with a hearing impairment, but her life changed dramatically after receiving a hearing implant. Her husband Sloan filmed the moment she was introduced to a device that allowed her to hear for the first time in her life. [cnn-video url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/10/03/ac-deaf-girl-hears.cnn"%5D
Student takes first steps at graduation – An inspiration to her peers, Angeline Lavasseur crosses two milestones at the same time, walking for the first time to receive her diploma at her high school graduation. [cnn-video url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/06/06/dnt.student.walks.graduation.wxyz"%5D
Brothers meet for first time – Two brothers who grew up in separate houses meet each other for the first time in more than 75 years. What's more astonishing is the fact that the brothers actually lived just minutes away from one another the whole time. [cnn-video url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/07/18/pkg.elderly.brothers.unite.wbns"%5D
Blind man regains sight – A legally blind, who suffered from macular degeneration, suddenly regains his vision after being hospitalized for dizziness. [cnn-video url="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/10/05/dnt-blind-man-sees.cnn"%5D
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jesus has nothing to do with any of this. It's called science, created by humans.
WHO WAS CREATED BY JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Science has nothing to do with this either since its fake.
Anon, Why don't God fix all the problems in the world? I am waiting for the excuses.
JT, you have poor reading comprehension skills. The reply to the comment wasnt an attack on science or religion, it was an attack on the blind girl hearing for the first time being fake.
Anon, the deaf girl is not blind.
And you know this because a 1800 year old book written by men who never saw Jesus told you so?
science comes naturally. i'm pretty sure science of physics were here way before us. i mean did the earth suddenly appears, starts rotating around the sun and creates an atmosphere? now in your world, science is god and god is science 🙂
CNN, the idiot wing of the internet, unable to realize people will not sit through a fresh commercial for every 20 second video.
So says the man who doesn't have AdBlock. Tell me, who is the most foolish in this situation?
wow, trolls have managed to bring the religious argument here.
Yeah, It doesn't take em long does it?
Why are you people unable to grasp that God did this, not science.
Yeah, God made her deaf. God empties our cars of gasoline so we have to refill them. God makes us fart.
There is no god, and that's just a fact. When you die, that's it. that's totally and completely the end of it for you. Enjoy your wonderful brief flash of sensory feedback loop consciousness and make the most of it every day.
Because most sane people believe in science and not magic.
How could this woman understand the words spoken to her, and why can she pronounce words?
you can teach the deaf to speak and to read lips. Possibly she was able to hear at some point in her life prior to an injury.
According to the article, she was deaf at birth. "Her husband Sloan filmed the moment she was introduced to a device that allowed her to hear for the first time in her life."
CNN,
Thank you for posting this. Its so refreshing to read, or in this case watch, some inspiring and happy news.
I am apprehensive. A deaf person has never heard themself talk and therefore does not have a "normal" tone of voice. Also, their vocal variety is not within the "normal" range since they have no audible reference. The lady in this article sounds like a hearing person. She sounds like she has been speaking and hearing all her life.
@ Andrew... If you go back and listen closely she does had a different tone... there is a slight drawl. However the sounds that we make when we are uncontrollably crying are not affected by correct grammar or speech.
how precious when the older gentleman got so excited that he could hammer a nail by himself again!
I have a child who has only a moderate hearing loss in both ears. Even with hearing aids and speech therapy, she does not, and likely will never speak the same as the rest of our family. This woman appeared on the Today show, claimed she had been deaf since birth, and then continued to speak as though she had been a hearing person her whole 29 years, and with a Texas accent to boot. I call BS, because there is no way a profoundly deaf woman after 29 years gets a device, flips a switch, and speaks with no deficit whatsoever, in a native Texan accent. This video is completely misleading and probably completely fake.
I agree with you 100%!
Have to watch that same stupid commercial for each video?!
I AM REALLY GETTING TIRED OF THE GREED AND PROFIT MOTIVATION OF CNN IN FORCING US TO SIT THROUGH ONE STUPID COMMERCIAL AFTER ANOTHER TO SEE A NEWS ITEM. NEWS ITEM TO CNN: I AM MAKING A NOTE OF THE COMPANIES ADVERTISING AND WILL MAKE A SPECIAL POINT NOT TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. SCREW CNN AND THEIR GREED.
Sorry, but this woman was not born deaf. There is no way she could've understood what the nurse was saying if she'd never heard English before. She wasn't even looking at the nurse when she asked her "Can you hear my voice?"
There's also no way she could've known what 'beeping' is if she'd never heard it before.
She was deaf, but she was obviously able to hear prior in her life at some point.
FOX NEWS DOES NOT SUBJECT ITS VIEWERS TO STUPID COMMERCIALS LIKE CNN.
CNN does not subject their viewers to stupidity like Faux News.
Capitalism...gotta love it.
Doesn't CNN make enough money as it is without having to run a freaking commercial before EVERY SINGLE video? Ridiculous
Jesus can heal disable without using modern technology.